Example sentences of "be for [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it not been for the activities of Lady Laetitia 's lover , bold Sir Rupert Cartland ( played by an odious young actor who 'd risen to prominence by playing a tough naval lieutenant in a television series ) making with the garlic and the wooden stakes ( a bit of vampire lore crept into the script ) , Lady Laetitia and her father would have been turned into zombies and carried back to the subterranean cave , where they would never be heard of again . |
| 2 | If it had n't been for the machinations of Horemheb … ’ |
| 3 | The more the institutions of representative government demand technical efficiency from administrative organizations , the more those organizations have found it necessary to employ specialists and the more difficult it has been for the judgements of the career officials to be resisted . |
| 4 | The complex of disparate elements comprising academic English was always unstable , though they might have stayed together longer if it had not been for the demands of the academic environment . |
| 5 | Von Tunzelmann , remarking that prices had the greater influence on real wage trends over this period , finds that the indices available are much closer to each other than they are for the periods on either side . |
| 6 | Most of the meetings are for the purposes of electing Elders and Deacons ; selecting dates for Communion and purging and adding to the roll in preparation ; electing a representative in the Presbytery and Synod ; and acting as a court of discipline . |
| 7 | There are several reasons why you might want to use a data compression utility ; the main two are for the purposes of backup , or for sending files to someone else , either on a disk or via a modem . |
| 8 | It is obvious , argues Cutler , how suitable these characteristics are for the needs of bourgeois society . |
| 9 | you go up along drive in and Newminster is on your left and Chantry is on your right , at , but I should imagine erm I should imagine that quite a lot of Chantry School children would be sent home because they 're for the children outside of Morpeth , you know they go there from |
| 10 | Initially it was assumed that the objective would be for the villages to farm on a communal basis . |
| 11 | But the Social Charter turned out not to be for the likes of us . |
| 12 | And how heartening his recovery must be for the families of other coma victims . |
| 13 | That pleasure will be for the peoples in and around the Pacific and Indian Oceans . |
| 14 | It will be for the partners in each firm to decide whether some such arrangement suits their particular circumstances or whether more or less complex procedures should be introduced . |
| 15 | Efforts to control whaling between the wars was said to be for the purposes of resource conservation ; that they were really concerned with managing the flow of whale oil through international markets . |
| 16 | Indeed , because of the court 's limited power , the policy of ultimate caution must be for the terms of any conveyancing documentation to be agreed between the respective solicitors before the consent order is applied for . |
| 17 | Altogether , these 63 centres expect to register over 2,400 students and trainees for the general SVQs , with the largest numbers being for the awards in care ( over 900 ) and hospitality ( around 800 ) . |
| 18 | Incidentally , and irrelevantly for present purposes , that reasoning has led to the well-established conclusion that a child en ventre sa mère at a testator 's death but later born alive may rank as a life in being for the purposes of the rule against perpetuities , which is a rule of public policy under English law : see Long v. Blackhall ( 1797 ) 7 Durn. & E. 100 . |
| 19 | In a rather odd way , 19th-century public schools were just as ideally suited for the fathers of gentlemen as they were for the sons of gentlemen . |
| 20 | In recent weeks our Moscow correspondent could have reported on why the voters in Lithuania had rejected Lansbergis and what the implications were for the prospects of democracy in Russia as well as Lithuania . |
| 21 | ‘ That 's for the cops tae find out , ’ Rab said . |
| 22 | it 's a , it 's for the students for God 's sake , I mean they should n't be making like more hassles . |
| 23 | how do you know it 's thingy ? , how do you know it 's for the kids in Norway ? |
| 24 | So I 've got ta say , that in terms of credibility it 's , and the Regional Sec er , the General Secretary made the point about credibility within those sections , and within that , those elections , it 's for the branches to , to actually decide who represents them credibly or not and for this , for any attempt to change rule in this particular way . |
| 25 | Since wages and prices tend to be ‘ sticky ’ in the downward direction , the only way that the price mechanism can work and give the appropriate signals is for the prices of different goods and services to rise at different rates . |
| 26 | It is common ground that it is for the governors of a voluntary aided school to decide who is to be admitted as a pupil and to lay down the admissions policy of the school . |
| 27 | Yet the more heavily regulated the market is , and the greater the restrictions on the property rights given to suppliers , the less scope there is for the benefits of competition to emerge at all . |
| 28 | The first requirement is for the terms to be written in grammatically correct English — errors of grammar may disguise or even distort the meaning of a term . |
| 29 | The normal rule in such circumstances is for the convictions to be set aside : ‘ no reasonable jury who had applied their mind properly to the facts in the case could have arrived at the conclusion , and once one assumes that they are an unreasonable jury , or they could not have reasonably come to the conclusion , then the convictions can not stand . ’ |
| 30 | There are a number of solutions , but the most interesting solution is for the cells to ‘ know ’ their position in the line . |